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Them getting to whine about Big Hollywood oppressing their box office totals and then also getting to blame poor BO performance (that they will recoup in bulk video sales to mega churches 100x over) is a marketing angle as well as adding to that weird persecution fetish they all have. "Buy the video Hollywood didn't want you to see!" Major release christian films have enjoyed fairly decent success in recent years. I was watching some youtube docs gawking at bad christian movies and I came across one that was an actual Christian arguing that they're not only bad from a religious perspective (he gets into a little about the production side as well: basically preachers aren't screenwriters) but also that they're just bad movies. I thought it was an interesting perspective. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50_3J6Go5Ng
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So elections are coming up in Houston, apparently. What would be resources I could use to find out what's on the ballot? Would the League of Women's Voters have anything? Is there any DSA resource that would help me know how to vote?
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Austin goons, come take your guy back https://twitter.com/ArtAcevedo/status/1120379979395686400
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devildragon777 posted:So elections are coming up in Houston, apparently. What would be resources I could use to find out what's on the ballot? Would the League of Women's Voters have anything? Is there any DSA resource that would help me know how to vote? The muni elections are in November and the fields are still not set. I'll do an effort post at some point regarding the various candidates. The official endorsements won't come until the fall and DSA doesn't (or hasn't, in the past) endorse half-baked candidates (e.g, wont endorse the lib who refuses to identify as or with DSA). The big issue at the moment is the firefighters prop which has created strange bedfellows (e.g., Houston DSA alongside Tony Buzbee, a Trump bundler and Rick Perry's lawyer).
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Marxalot posted:Austin goons, come take your guy back lol is he really gonna survive that heroin assassination clusterfuck
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i say swears online posted:lol is he really gonna survive that heroin assassination clusterfuck Absolutely
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i say swears online posted:lol is he really gonna survive that heroin assassination clusterfuck It is already out of sight and out of mind, though it did pop up this week because the DA dismissed a few dozen charges on people arrested by the involved cops. Literally the only local politics story getting any real and long term coverage is firefighter pay raises.
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Sab0921 posted:The muni elections are in November and the fields are still not set. I'll do an effort post at some point regarding the various candidates. The official endorsements won't come until the fall and DSA doesn't (or hasn't, in the past) endorse half-baked candidates (e.g, wont endorse the lib who refuses to identify as or with DSA). Thank you! The May 4th votes are just about bonds, then? Sab0921 posted:It is already out of sight and out of mind, though it did pop up this week because the DA dismissed a few dozen charges on people arrested by the involved cops. I thought HPD was going to be fined or have some sort of procedural change over no-knock raids as a result of that? Did that end up not happening? And what's the deal with the firefighter pay raises thing? It's a vote to raise firefighter pay raises to the same level as police, right? Also, in Texas House Reps being decent, Lizzie Fletcher visited our musjid to speak and interact with the community after the Sri Lanka bombing: https://twitter.com/RepFletcher/status/1121072111437721600
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https://twitter.com/RobertTGarrett/status/1122835979696508929 I went to a Christian private school until HS and on the National Day of Prayer we prayed all fuckin day, I hated it.
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Just listened to the tribcast episode from last week and realized the senate still hasn’t even passed a school finance bill yet
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They're supposed to pass it out of committee this week, it's not that far off of the House's proposal so, if they can get it off the floor, conference should be pretty easy. House hasn't done the property tax cap either, I think each chamber is kind of marching forward holding their important bill at gunpoint ready to execute it if the other chamber kills the bill. Also Seliger and Watson did some tribune thing a couple of weeks ago, and Seliger said something about the reason Patrick was wiling to go nuclear over SB 2 was because Abbott was saying that he won't call a special if they don't get ed finance/prop taxes done so https://twitter.com/evanasmith/status/1122833751023792130 Lmao Castro zoux fucked around with this message at 14:44 on Apr 29, 2019 |
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zoux posted:They're supposed to pass it out of committee this week, it's not that far off of the House's proposal poo poo, isn't that the one with the lower teacher raises?
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AFAIK it still has the $5k raises in there, the House is the lower one, $1600 I think? The Senate includes a merit pay provision modeled after the DISD system, and merit pay is one of the teachers' unions/trade groups major objections. Anyway if it passes it'll be somewhere between the two. e: yeah it's in there 
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devildragon777 posted:Thank you! The May 4th votes are just about bonds, then? It's elections for bonds (no City of Houston or HISD bonds though) and smaller municipalities in the area (e.g., West U, Bellaire, Humble, Pasadena, South Houston etc...) quote:And what's the deal with the firefighter pay raises thing? It's a vote to raise firefighter pay raises to the same level as police, right? There is a lot to be said about it, but the crux of the issue is after the Mayor got the state leg to cut firefighter pensions in the 2017 legislature, firefighters wanted a raise. Negotiations with the Mayor broke down and they got a petition on the ballot to grant pay equity with police officers (police officers have taken pension cuts for pay raises for more than a decade, while fire chose the opposite). This would be a 25-30% raise. Houston also has a revenue cap where revenues can't increase more than 2.5% a year (or in relation to population growth if larger) which makes large scale expenditures hard. The Firefighters did not include an exception to the revenue cap on their petition, so they have to find a way to pay for it out of existing funds. Throughout the process, the Mayor said if it passes, there would have to be layoffs without a phase-in process. It passed 60/40 and now the Mayor said ok, but there will be layoffs to pay for it unless you do a 5 year phase in (400 layoffs for immediate phase in). The firefighters are now complaining that there will be layoffs because they want immediate or no more than 3 year phase-in. It's a stupid fight and the Firefighters are in the wrong. I voted for the prop to increase their salaries because they wanted a pay raise, and seemingly understood the context surrounding how it could be paid for within the statutory budget constraints. quote:Also, in Texas House Reps being decent, Lizzie Fletcher visited our musjid to speak and interact with the community after the Sri Lanka bombing: https://twitter.com/RepFletcher/status/1121072111437721600 While she's better than the last guy, she's still basically just a Republican. This was her like hours before that - at a small business round table with BP and ConocoPhillips, noted small businesses. She also wrote an op-ed for the Friday Chronicle trying to walk back the Green New Deal, saying it's too heavy handed with government regulation.
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https://twitter.com/RobertTGarrett/status/1122932509564600320 People who carry guns are peaceful and harmless and if you don't permit people to carry without any license then we're going to loving kill you  I'm a violent felon give me a gun or I'll stab you.
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Hell has frozen over. HB 63 passed nearly 2-1.
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KIM JONG TRILL posted:Hell has frozen over. HB 63 passed nearly 2-1. Goddamn, txlege good? Also I thought someone drew up a bill redoing all instances of "marihuana" with "marijuana", didn't they? The text of HB 63 is littered with h's and I'm mad as hell about it.
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KIM JONG TRILL posted:Hell has frozen over. HB 63 passed nearly 2-1. That is just the decriminalization of small amounts right? No actual weed stores setting up shop anytime soon?
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Zil posted:That is just the decriminalization of small amounts right? No actual weed stores setting up shop anytime soon? It would make <1 oz of Marijuana a class C offense (punishable by up to a $500 fine only [no jail]), mandates deferred adjudication for that offense if no other weed charge in the prior 12 months, provides for early expunction of Class C weed charges, bars officers for arresting someone if the only ground is possession of <1 oz of marijuana or possession of drug paraphernalia (unlike virtually all other Class C or traffic citations), and eliminates some collateral consequences like the 6 month DL suspension that occurs for any other type of drug offense.
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https://twitter.com/patricksvitek/status/1123060971533107200?s=21 Accusations of secret homosexuality, he really is like Obama https://twitter.com/scottbraddock/status/1123225909228638208 Allow me to suggest: offer a shitload of amendments that don't get adopted and then bitch about it all day while the bill passes anyway. zoux fucked around with this message at 15:07 on Apr 30, 2019 |
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https://twitter.com/DanPatrick/status/1123238393859706880 I saw a ton of press about how Texas was on the verge of legalizing weed so always remember that media is terrible about describing process.
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https://twitter.com/DanPatrick/status/1123276995171844096 Light in the loafers means exactly one thing and one thing only.
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Dan Patrick is getting ratioed to death on that tweet drat
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I meant that he doesn't grasp things firmly when I called him "limp-wristed" *looks knowingly at GOP electorate*
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So am I expected to feel bad for the guy who voted to lay off a bunch of people? I feel like I'm missing some context for this.
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Someone posted about it yesterday I think. The firefighters put up a proposition to give themselves a raise but didn’t include a funding mechanism and also won’t allow it to be phased in. Also Houston has a revenue cap. So either you fire them or fire other city workers because the City is now legally required to pay for it.
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Proud Christian Mom posted:yeah this is entirely the firefighters being stupid and doubling down They were also the ones dragging their feet on the Houston city pension fix last session. https://twitter.com/lmcgaughy/status/1123589875767349248 Is it though?
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Keeshhound posted:So am I expected to feel bad for the guy who voted to lay off a bunch of people? I feel like I'm missing some context for this. I did a longer post about this issue a few posts up - but at its core - this is a blatant quid pro quo. I gave you money to vote like this and you didn't so return my purchase price please. Not a good look.
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Alright, that does make more sense. Sorry for missing the earlier discussion.
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Sab0921 posted:I did a longer post about this issue a few posts up - but at its core - this is a blatant quid pro quo. I gave you money to vote like this and you didn't so return my purchase price please. Not a good look. Also, sorry to interrupt your mourning but, give us back our bribe
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zoux posted:Also, sorry to interrupt your mourning but, give us back our bribe That plane crash sucked  I knew 3 people on there and was close with one of them - life is precious, delicate, and short so hug your children
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